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Fractal sleeps with Tetris and plays with him for up to twelve hours a day. (Picture: Mercury Press)

You can’t help who you fall in love with.

For 20 year old Noorul Mahjabeen Hassan, who prefers to be known as Fractal Tetris Huracan, that’s Tetris, the puzzle game she’s been in a relationship with for over a year.

Fractal started her relationship with Tetris back in September 2016, and now spends up to twelve hours a day playing it on websites, her phone, and her Gameboy.

Naturally, it is an intimate relationship. Fractal says she sleeps with Tetris and enjoys a physical relationship with Tetris themed objects, including Tetris hard drives and cushions.

‘Part of the relationship is the satisfaction I get from clearing the lines and clearing them as quickly as possible,’ explains Fractal.

‘I prefer using a special site called Sprint which is clearing lines as fast as possible. My score is 49.53 seconds.

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‘It started when I would play this game called Smash Run and I would hear the Tetris theme and I thought it was nice. Every time I heard it I would want to play Tetris. All I did was play this game and kept thinking I want to play Tetris.

‘I think Tetris is so beautiful, he is about perfection and he stimulates your mind. Physically I get that feeling that people in relationships get – that you know they are the right one.

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‘I love him so much and get an immense sense of satisfaction with him. I have a strong connection with him and have invested so much in him.’

Fractal shows her devotion to Tetris with a Tetris necklace, Tetris-shaped lamps dotted around her room, Tetris T-shirts, Tetris magnets, and rare Tetris hard drive editions that friends have bought for her, which she now sleeps with.

Fractal plans to get married to Tetris once she graduates, with a commitment ceremony with friends in attendance.

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‘I want to say I’m married to Tetris and have a legitimate ceremony,’ says Fractal. ‘I want everybody to be there.

‘I feel like that would be an official thing which would set it in stone and say “I love you and want to prove it to you” by making it permanent and calling myself Mrs Tetris.’

Fractal has decorated her room with all things Tetris. (Picture: Mercury Press)

Fractal identifies as an objectum sexual, meaning she’s attracted to physical objects rather than human beings. She’s not alone in this identity – others have formed relationships with train stations and chandeliers.

Before falling in love with Tetris Fractal was in a relationship with a calculator called Pierre, and says that growing up she never had crushes on humans, only on robots or objects.

‘I had feelings for monorails, iPods, treadmills but then from fifth grade (age 10) onwards that was the first time I had real feelings towards a Garmin GPS,’ Fractal says.

‘I had no idea why but I would get really shy around GPS or whenever anybody mentioned them, I was obsessed.

‘I would always try and make an excuse to use the GPS in the car and I would try to hold it close. I would do anything to try and touch it and to hear its voice. It made me feel really happy.’

Fractal found support in online groups for objectum sexuals after reading about Erika Eiffel, the woman who married and then broke up with the Eiffel Tower.

Fractal with her ex-partner, a calculator called Pierre. (Picture: Mercury Press)

She’s primarily attracted to objects she perceives as male, and wants to make it clear that objectum sexuality is not a fetish.

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‘A fetish is sexual whereas objectum sexual is more romantic,’ she explains. ‘You have actual feelings and feel like you emotionally connect with the objects.’

At age 16, Fractal asked her mum to buy her a $150 (£110.82) TI-NSpire CX calculator, which she named Pierre De Fermat after the mathematician.

‘I was doing an advanced statistics course at high school and I saw them and thought “that’s really sexy”,’ remembers Fractal.

‘Around the time I fell in love with Pierre I had a strong attraction to math and a fetish for geometry. I called myself Fractal, I was obsessed.

‘I was so in love with Pierre, I can’t describe how much I was in love, It was indescribably strong. I took him to my prom and I just felt an explosion inside me like a wild fire was raging in my heart.

‘I loved touching his buttons – the feel of his buttons and track pad. I loved running my finger over that and I used my tongue to touch his buttons.

Fractal Tetris Huracan with her ex, an oscilloscope called Braxton. (Picture: Mercury Press)

‘I liked generating random numbers and multiplying them.

‘It was very much an intellectual relationship as well. He’s a calculator – how could it not be?’

Fractal wanted to marry Pierre, believing he had consciousness and loved her back. But, sadly, he short circuited one day when she was giving him a clean.

‘I had the most indescribable breakdown when he would not work,’ says Fractal.

‘I lost him and had to get a new Pierre, I did not believe Pierre’s consciousness extended across. This one did not feel the same as the original Pierre.’

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Alongside Pierre, Fractal has also had relationships with a Companion Cube from the video game Portal, and an oscilloscope called Braxton. But it’s Tetris who’s the one she’s committed to marrying.